Episode 147 The Best English Summer Songs To Add To Your Playlist

In this episode I'm going to introduce you to some quintessentially summery English songs. These will be well known to most native speakers and are often used as background music in shops, so even if we don't know who sings them, we usually know all the words! I have covered weather before on the podcast. Head to Episode 9 for words about rain and Episode 68 for phrases about the sun. Both episodes also have a musical soundtrack! Songs from the episode: Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff - Summertime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr0tTbTbmVA Bananarama - Cruel Summer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ml3nyww80 Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c Bryan Adams - Everything I do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0pdQU87dc8 Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88fbHOmvRk Otis Redding - Sittin' On The Dock Of the Bay The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer in the City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ofnHmxE-I Martha and the Vandellas - Dancing in the Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Uv959QuCg Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Summertime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWWl3jBoOeo Vocabulary cross-generationally - something that is relevant to many different generations millennials - people born from 1981 to 1996 quintessentially - something that is wholly and completely representative of a particular time or place. AKA - also known as Robin Hood - Robin Hood is a legendary hero from British History. First noted in books in the 1400's nobody really knows if he even existed, but we have a lot of stories. He is famous for living in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire and for stealing from the rich to give to the poor. rocketed back into fame - phrase meaning something very quickly became popular, these days we might also say 'went viral', but this happened before 'going viral' was a thing. to the forefront of pop music - at the forefront means at the front or the first of something. breeding ground - a place where lots of creativity or action happens. This can be negative 'a breeding ground for bugs' or positive 'a breeding ground for creativity'. listened nonstop - when we listen constantly the most covered song in the world - 'covered' in a musical sense means somebody else sang the song.